Agents and orchestration
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GOVERNANCE AND ASSURANCE
Give every AI agent an accountable identity
Register each agent with an owner, a purpose and task-scoped permissions, replace shared credentials with short-lived access, and link every action to the person it acts for and the approval behind it.
Industry
Financial services, Telecommunications and service providers, Public sector, Healthcare and life sciences, Technology
Business function
IT and engineering, Finance and risk
Business goal
Manage risk and compliance, Strengthen operational resilience
Solution category
Governance and assurance, Agents and orchestration
The opportunity
Agents often run on shared service accounts or long-lived keys with more access than their task requires. When an agent acts for several people across systems, security teams cannot easily see what it did, on whose behalf or who approved it.
How it works
- 01
Register each agent with its owner, purpose, environments and the people it acts for.
- 02
Define task-scoped permissions and issue short-lived credentials instead of shared keys.
- 03
Check each requested action against policy and record the agent, user and approval.
- 04
Review activity, revoke unused access and retire agents whose purpose has ended.
What it needs
- Agent inventory and business owners
- Access policies and approval rules
- Identity provider and system permissions
What it produces
- Agent register with owners and purposes
- Task-scoped, time-limited access grants
- Attributed activity and approval record
Where people decide
Security and business owners approve each agent's purpose and permissions, review its activity and decide when access is extended, reduced or revoked.
Example application
A bank registers its service agents, limits each one to the systems its task requires and gives security teams one view of what every agent did and for whom.
What to measure
Evaluation measures to agree before release, not achieved results.
- Agents with a named owner and scoped access
- Time to reduce or revoke agent access
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